In Which We Distill a Distillation

From The NYT, The Opinionator presents the opinion of one Robert D. Kaplan, whose love song to war in The Atlantic reveals him to be a blood-thirsty, murdering chicken-hawk.

Reductionism:

At Think Progress, Matt Yglesias writes that "Kaplan is merely highlighting the fundamental difference between neoconservative thinking and thinking undertaken by people with a moral compass."

Filthy pacifists. They disgust us. War is the ONLY morality!!

"Paging Dr. Freud, Dr. Freud to the Ten-Cent Psychology Dept't":
Truly telling, also from The Yg:

Neoconservatives, however, see war and death as good things. Irving Kristol told Corey Robin that market-oriented conservatism is too “boring” (”The notion of devoting your life to it is horrifying if only because it’s so repetitious. It’s like sex.”) so you need to inject some death and destruction into the mix to keep things interesting.

Elements of Style©:
From Kaplan's crap:

Europe, having been liberated from nuclear terror at the conclusion of the Cold War, proved unable to muster the gumption ...

"Gumption?" Talk about your Nineteenth Century Mind!